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...weapon? San Francisco's Union Square district--home to Armani, Bulgari, Cartier and now Cody's. This month Ross has expanded across the bay from Berkeley into a two-story, 22,000-sq.-ft. space next to a Virgin Megastore and opposite an Apple Store. A garish $35,000 yellow sign outside can be seen all the way from Macy's--crucial, Ross says, to luring the shopaholics who frequent the district into the store (and away from the nearby Borders...
Solid on defense, Reese can also find his way to the net, and his offensive flair gives the Crimson a valuable weapon. MacDonald enjoyed a solid freshman season skating alongside Walsh, who says the sophomore “got incredibly stronger over the summer. He’s already thrown a couple of nice hits in practice so far, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see him light a few people...
...United States, former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry said at the John F. Kennedy, Jr., Forum last night. Perry, who led the Department of Defense from 1994 to 1997 under former President Bill Clinton, said that a nightmare scenario in which terrorists could gain access to nuclear weapons and use them against an American city was “all too real.” “If they get them, they will use them and the results would be devastating,” he said to a crowd of about 200. Perry, who is now a professor...
...sees the FTAA as a shield against the growing encroachment of China and the European Union into Latin America. Chavez has made no secret of his desire to undercut U.S. hegemony in the region by forging a new Latin American economic and political integration. Oil may be his chosen weapon to achieve that goal: Venezuela, which holds the hemisphere's largest oil reserves and which supplies almost 15% of the U.S. needs, is forming regional energy partnerships that offer cash- and fuel-strapped neighbors cheaper access to Venezuelan oil. And he and other Latin governments are ratcheting up trade with...
...Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei stressed the need for global cooperation in addressing arms control and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in a speech yesterday at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. ElBaradei said that the current non-proliferation program is rife with problems that render efforts to stifle nuclear development very difficult. “If we look at the system now, I think it is a dysfunctional system,” ElBaradei said. He said a multi-national effort is central to his vision of successful implementation of the United Nations’ non-proliferation treaty...